Power Politics - Realist Approach to International Relations - Past Exam, Exams of Political Science

Download Power Politics - Realist Approach to International Relations - Past Exam and more Exams Political Science in PDF only on Docsity! ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS SEMESTER ONE EXAMINATIONS ACADEMIC YEAR 2010/2011 IPM2530 THE REALIST APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: FROM WEBER TO WALTZ NB – THIS IS A ‘TAKE HOME’ EXAMINATION Time Allowed: THREE Hours Answer THREE of the following five questions. Each answer should arrive at 1,500 words, give or take 10%; do not count reference material in your word total. Please consult the guide to this examination handed out to you earlier in the term for further instructions and suggestions. 1. Who had a greater influence on the American Realist worldview: Schmitt or Carr? 2. Does the ‘animus dominandi’ account wholly for the brutality of international politics in Morgenthau’s Scientific Man vs Power Politics? 3. How would Waltz defend his suggestion, in chapter 9 of Theory of International Politics, that the two Cold War superpowers might seek to manage global affairs? 4. ‘The End of the Cold War did not invalidate Structural Realism.’ Assess this claim. 5. Develop a Niebuhrian analysis of unipolarity.